Dave Sottimano

Turns out the future does have flying cars

$GOOG VP Josh Woodward reveals Gemini is moving toward one prompt box with no modes or toggles, and hints a “personal, proactive, powerful” version of Gemini is coming soon “I think where we’re iterating is that we’ve been in a world where, even if you look at some of the other competitors, there are different modes that you go into. I think the lesson, even from the last couple of weeks, is: forget the modes and toggles. Just one prompt box—tell it what you want, and it just does stuff for you. “That’s definitely where we’re headed and where others are headed. I think that’s a broader UX simplification happening across the industry. “On the data bits, one of the main things people will ping me about is, ‘Google, I’ve got all my stuff with you. Just make the thing work.’ There’s a lot of reluctance to connect it to a lot of competitor products. Watch this space. We hear you loud and clear. “There’s a lot of work—if you go online and look under ‘personal intelligence’—which is how we think about this. You want a Gemini that is personal, proactive, powerful, that works for you. That’s been the vision for the last year or so that we’re headed toward. There’s a lot of stuff we’re playing with right now that will be out soon.”

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New experiment: json-render + jev The future Generative UI is instant Your components, your actions, your design system Rendered in milliseconds

Has anyone ever actually challenged a decision made by Claude Code or Codex while coding? Like, the AI suggests a way to do something and you just go: “No, I think there’s a better way.” Curious how often people actually push back on their AI coding tools.

Instead of checking my phone first thing, I set up an agent to make a "morning newspaper". It prints while I sleep. I used grokbot @bot to pull from my calendar and email I made it available if you wanna try it 👇

You can now watch any AI paper instead of reading it There's a new site called arXivisual that turns ANY arXiv paper into a fully animated breakdown for free. Just add "isual" to the link arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 becomes arxivisual.org/abs/1706.0376… Paste it and an agent pipeline breaks the paper into sections, finds the concepts worth animating, writes Manim code for each one, and narrates it with voice You scroll, the narration plays, and each animation sits right next to the paragraph it explains Tried it on the original Transformers paper. Attention finally made sense to me in a way 10 blog posts never did, and it's open source. Four college kids built it at a hackathon Here's what I'd do if I were you: 1. Pick the one paper you've been avoiding 2. Change the link and paste it in 3. Scroll through it on your phone with headphones in 4. Ask your AI to explain the one section you still don't get You'll learn more in 20 minutes than a whole weekend of pretending to read PDFs This is how you read research in 2026

Like others, I'm struggling with visibility of my local agent sessions across different harnesses, so I built a Command & Conquer RTS interface to see what projects the units are working on.